| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing, Strategy
Why Adopt ISO Standards for Asset Management? Here’s Why, and How.
ERP Podcast Series from IFS

ISO standards are a lot of things. Specifications for products and services. A third party stamp of approval for quality,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Modular Technology vs Big Bang – Delivering an agile aerospace and defense organization

When Gartner speaks, we all tend to listen. So when Gartner characterized 2014 as the dawn of post-modern ERP – where the enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite is de-constructed into a more federal, “loosely-coupled” ERP environment – I not only listened, but agreed. Because this is exactly the trend we are seeing in the market for enterprise software in the demanding aerospace and defense software industry.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
IFS in the Hall of Fame

IFS is among the top ten of Sweden’s best workplaces for the fifth year in a row. This post explains why!

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
Trying to Make Sense of the Conflict Minerals Rule? Good luck with that!

Regardless of your position on government mandates for corporate social responsibility, one thing is certain. The U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, IFS Labs, Mobility, Research, Strategy
The Making and Breaking of the Internet of Things
Industry 4.0

2014 will go down in history as the year when the Internet of Things (IoT) hype peaked. Thus the interesting question becomes what will happen next? Will IoT follow the usual pattern of a set-back due to overinflated expectations, only to return later as widely adopted part of our lives? Or will IoT be the exception that goes directly from hype to use?

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing
How Can I.T. Keep Up with the 3D Printing Revolution?

3D printing has continued to hit the headlines with some fascinating use cases, such as the architects in Amsterdam that…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
What can the construction sector learn from other industries?
Crossrail tunnel under construction

Last month I attended the 19th Annual Future of Utilities Conference in London and was part of a panel discussion…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Service
And the sooner you use enterprise software, the quicker the ROI!

Last week Martin Gunnarsson blogged that “Owning enterprise software doesn’t add value to your business; using it does.” How true…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Events
Owning enterprise software doesn’t add value to your business; using it does!

One important element in the path to innovation is to learn about all the new capabilities in IFS Applications. We can help our customers to add—stepwise and pretty seamlessly—new product innovations to their ERP suite without major business intermission.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology
Why does business agility matter now more than ever?

Change or die. It is a pretty simple concept!

And that is why IFS is devoting substantial resources (see the first in our series of business agility whitepapers) to making the case for increased business agility, not only in the thinking of executives and the intelligentsia, but in the technology infrastructure that holds an enterprise-class business together.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Why Public Sector in the United Kingdom Should Do More than Just ‘Think’ Cloud

Public and private sector organizations around the world are increasingly taking advantage of the scalable power of cloud computing. Solutions…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
New NEC Case Study Illustrates the Benefits of Collaborative Working
NEC

One of IFS’s most successful business partnerships is with NEC Corporation, the Japanese multinational provider of IT services and products,…

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